// About
Tarek Anandan (me) is a freelance website designer based in Washington DC. I design and build custom websites, primarily for nonprofit organizations and other socially focused ventures. I offer full scale website design and development services, website maintenance services, and consultation on online communications strategy, search engine optimization, and web analytics/statistics.
Tarek is motivated by good communications, an interest in programming, a fascination with data, a love of creativity and design, and a focus on improving society.
// Specialties
Website Design and Development
Tarek has contributed to the conceptualization, design, and development of nearly 50 websites. My projects have included websites for agencies of the Federal government, numerous nonprofit organizations such as a think tank and large international foundation, indviduals, and a handful of small businesses. My experience spans small sites with a modest amount of traffic and infrequent updates, to sites with daily updates and traffic exceeding 50,000 visitors per month.
Website Maintenance -- Webmaster For Hire
Tarek serves as a remote webmaster for numerous websites. I serve as the sole webmaster for organizations that don't need or can't afford a full time staff person. In other cases, I complement organizations' internal staff by offering specialized expertise.
Web Analytics and Statistics
Tarek helps turn mere numbers into meaningful information and practical advice. I enjoy helping my clients get excited about the data provided in tools like Google Analytics, WebTrends, or simple log files. More importantly, I enjoy helping them use the information to improve their organization's performance.
e-Mail Marketing
Tarek helps organizations establish and effectively use e-marketing techniques. I help organizations establish e-mail marketing campaigns with lists as few as a hundred subscribers to ones with more than 10,000 subscribers.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Tarek helps ensure that your content gets discovered, shared, and used. Tarek explains SEO, Google's PageRank, and related issues in non-technical terms and helps to address the issues that are keeping your content from reaching its potential.
// Background and Experience
Tarek has worked in the website field since 2000, but has academic training in economics and public policy. I offer a combination of technical expertise and substantive knowledge that provides a unique service to nonprofit organizations and the like.
Throughout my career I have maintained a close connection to the nonprofit and social sectors. I am a founding Board Member of the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network of Washington DC, served on the Board of Governors of the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, and currently serve as a Senior Systems Analyst for the American Institutes for Research, a nonprofit social science and behavioral research organization, on a part-time basis. Additionally, I have several years of professional experience in the field of performance management, and have designed and monitored performance metrics for a variety of socially-focused programs.
// Additional Info
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// Websites
// Tasks
- Online Advocacy: Email-A-Friend Function
- Solution for Client's Adobe Contribute Problem
- Launched Redesigned Website for Foundation Client
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// Projects
Additional samples available upon request
// Resume
// Skill Sketch
- Website Design and Development
- Web Analytics
- Internet Marketing
- Application Development
- Accessibility
- Services
- Website Hosting
// Customers
- Annie E. Casey Foundation
- Anonymous
- American Institutes for Research
- Center for Implementing Technology in Education
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Center for English Language Learners
- Charles Lewis
- Chicago Public Schools
- Committee for Economic Development
- Fund for Independence in Journalism
- K-8 Access Center
- National Center on Response to Intervention
- National Center on Student Progress Monitoring
- National Center for Technology Innovation
- National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth
- National Consortium on Workforce and Disability for Youth
- National Evaluation and Technical Assistance Center for the Education of Children and Youth Who Are Neglected, Delinquent, or At Risk
- National High School Center
- National Reporting System for Adult Education
- Social Science Data Analysis Network
- Technical Assistance Parntership for Child and Family Mental Health
- U.S. Department of Education
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Westmoreland Cooperative
- Worry Free Lawns, Inc.
- Young Nonprofit Professionals Network of DC
